Unknown Woman of Seine

The ‘Woman of Seine’ was an unknown woman whose body was pulled out of the Seine River in Paris in the 1880s. A post-mortem pathologist at the morgue was so taken by her beauty that he made a plaster cast death mask of her face. She was estimated to be 16 years old and she quickly became famous for her smile. It was compared to Mona Lisa and girls all over the world, most notably in France and Germany, copied her look. Her death mask is now used as the face of the CPR mannequin and it is the most kissed face on earth. The true details surrounding her death have been debated for years and her identity still remains unclear.